The All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Imo State has set up a committee to probe the recent clash between Governor Rochas Okorocha and Senator Chris Anyanwu.

The anti-vandal squad team of Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested a five-member criminal gang of pipeline vandalism syndicate terrorising the state.

POLICE in Delta State, weekend, demolished a bungalow used as hideout by suspected kidnappers in Eboh-Orogun, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.

For the North to produce the next president in 2015, it would have to correct all ill-feelings caused by the selection of candidates based on sentiments, the Concern Arewa Patriots, CAP, has suggested.

Worried by the persistent bloodbath between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Benue, Nasarawa and other parts of the country, a group, Miyette Allah Cattle Rearers Association, an umbrella body of Fulani herdsmen, has called on the Federal Government to create grazing routes for cattle rearers across the country.

A WARRI Magistrate Court in Delta State, weekend, granted a Warri-based lawyer, Mr. Casely Omo-Irabor, bail in the sum of N3 million, following his arraignment for alleged involvement in attempting to bribe police authorities to secure the release of an alleged kidnap kingpin in the state, Mr. Vincent Akpokona.

The last week endorsement of the governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi by some leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the state to run for the second term in 2015, has met a stiff opposition, as one of the prominent members of the party in the state, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele has kicked against the whole arrangement, saying it was a mere expression of opinion.

SADNESS punctuated the joy associated with a new year as 15 persons died in a multiple auto crash on Ogbomoso-Oyo-Ibadan road yesterday.

It was a year ago that the cracks in the country were temporarily put aside in a united protest against the government. For once, Christians and Muslims across tribal lines stood as one against the administration’s 2012 New Year increase in the price of petrol.

Unarguably, one of its most infamous actions, the Goodluck Jonathan administration had on New Year day, 2012 announced the increase in petrol prices from N65 per litre to N141 per litre. The increase, the administration claimed, was in line with the deregulation policy that had for long been mouthed by several administrations since the Ibrahim Babangida regime in the 80’s.

OVER 35 illegal oil refineries and 18 local boats used by bunkerers were, weekend, destroyed by the Joint Task Force on Oil Bunkering operating in Ondo State.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) have lambasted the federal government over the proposed N60 billion phones-for-farmers policy saying it is a misplaced priority.

THE Chairman of the Ondo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Chief Oladutele Obayoriade, weekend, said that those who caused mayhem last week in the state, have confessed and were imported from other states.

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it is yet to endorse any aspirant as it governorship candidate for the 2015 elections in Lagos State.

General Manager, Corporate Communications of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Yakubu Dati, yesterday, debunked rumours that the agency had borrowed $US500 million from China to acquire aircraft for domestic airlines operating in the country.

The capital market seems to have transited from the apprehensive mood which prevailed among operators at the beginning of 2012, to consensus optimism of a better performance in 2013. This is reflected in the views of four major stakeholders who spoke to Financial Vanguard on the performance of the market in 2012 and expectations for the New Year, BABAJIDE KOMOLAFE writes